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out. LONDON, ! FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1826. From the Parliamentary Reports it will be perceived that Mr. ELLISON having presented a petition from the Ship-owners of North Shields against the Reel- Proeity Laws—Mr. HUSKISSON gave notice of a Motion for Tuesday next—when he hoped to satisfy the Rouse of the policy of these Laws. The Right lion. Gentleman took the opportunity of offering some etAorka on the attack made on him by Mr. BARING Ile nights ago, for being absent when some petition other was presented to the House. We should hre thou g ht th at t h e ac k now l e d ge d dili gence o f t h e 'resident of the Board of Trade would have prevented Members of opposition from catching at these pitiful opportunities for abusing Ministers. . Lord JOHN RUSSEL brought forward his motion, on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. The atzu mints on either side are so ably and fully stated, that it would be presumptuous to offer any remarks of OUT own. Mr. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the " Stealing from Gardens Act ;" but to the disgrace of the country, the Spring Guns Bill was thrown out, though it received the support of the Home Secretary. It is indeed gratifying to see that Right Honourable Gentleman directing his great talents to minute, but important objects of legislation, and seeking for an enduring fame from the whole tenor of his conduct—rather than tilting for it on sPlendid occasions only, and resigning all detail to inferiors, as has been too much the case in former periods of our history. The accounts from Lancashire continue to be of she most distressing nature. The mob, according to these accounts, had succeeded in destroying the power looms in several other manufactories, notwithstanding the means of defence used by the proprietors, and the assistance of the military. For the afflicting particu lars, we must refer to the extracts from the country papers, given in another part of our Journal. We urged yesterday the necessity of using the strong arm of power, to deter the unfortunate manufacturers from pursuing a course, as injurious to their own interests as to those of the owners of property, while at the same time we recommended that immediate measures should be taken for affording relief to the urgent dis tress which exists in that particular district. Subse quent information only tends to confirm our opinion, that prompt and vigorous measures ought to be taken to put down the rioters at once, and to show them that distress can never be permitted as a justification of outrageous acts, which, whatever may be their occa sion, must be punished with.the utmost severity of the law. If measures of this nature are not forthwith adopted, the mistaken and injurious principle upon which the rioters have acted will spread with the ra pidity of a flame, and the whole of the machine pro perty of tile manufacturing districts of Lancashire will be sacrificed to their infuriated feelings. Their passions will by degrees become more excited, and consequences of the most terrific nature may ensue. Let it not, how ever, be for a moment supposed, that in urging the use of strong measures, we do not truly and deeply sympa thize in the piteous distress which exists among these poor people. The transition which they have expe rienced within the last few months, from a state of comparative prosperity—from full employment and high wages—to a state of absolute want of employ ment and means of subsistence—has been as calami tous as it was sudden and unlooked for.—No fault of theirs occasioned this reverse, nor could any exer tion of theirs have prevented it. Their activity and hard labour, indeed, contributed to hasten the crisis which has arisen by the production of that immense stock which has glutted every market, but they are not to be blamed for this. They are rather to be pitied , that the means of others to purchase, have not conti nued in the same ratio as theirs to produce. Their distress, therefore, is justly deserving of relief. Let that relief be promptly bestowed. Let the bene volent example set by the Meeting to be held in Lon don, for the purpose of obtaining contributions for this object, be followed through all those parts of the Kingdom to which distress has not extended, by which a sum may be raised sufficient, at all events, to afford a temporary relief, and allow time for other means to be devised for applying a more prompt and effec tual cure to their existing misfortunes. No disaffected or malicious feelings against their employers have been mixed up with the proceedings of the rioters, and we have no doubt that,:with the means of subsistence, quiet and order would speedily return. The French Papers of Tuesday arrived last night, but they contain nothing worthy of remark. By the latest accounts from Corfu, Missolonghi still held Cape Town Papers to the 9th February have ar. rived, but their contents are wholly unimportant. The German Mail received this morning contains the subjoined article from the Rhine, and another from Palermo respecting the re-appearance of a beautiful Comet in that quarter : FROM THE RHINE—(at the end of March.) It has often been remarked, and sometimes publicly said, that the helplessness of the German people, which frequently manifests itself on occasions of active interference in the public affairs of the country, is a singular contrast to the knowledge and enlightened views which are so generally diffused, and to the eager participa tion in public events, which is often so loudly expressed in words. A very striking instance of this is afforded by what passed on the 81st and 28th February, at Coblents and Du&seldorff; in the election of Deputies to the Second Estate to the Provincial Diet. To this estate belong all the possessors of what were formerly noble estates, without any regard to the difference of old or new nobility , or persons not noble. It was to be foreseen that the de !scentlants of the ancient families, who► in the former ecclesiastical states, were elevated, by privileges of all kinds, far above all the other classes, would not be at all pleased at being ranked in the same state with persons not noble. It was even known that some individuals of this class had addressed remonstances to the King of Prussia against this analgamation, which were rejected with equal mildness and decision. It could not therefore escape the most limited penetration, that the members of this formerly so highly privileged body, would take the opportunity of the elections, in order to get the direction of the Grand Estate of the Provincial Assembly into their hands, after the law and the express; will of the King had denied it as a privilege. Yet this notorious state of things, and the certainty of the consequences, could not induce the not-noble landowners of the province, who make the great majority of the second estate, to agree together in the exercise of the new political rights given them by the law, and the will of our most just Xiang. • Most of them did not attend at the elec tion : the consequence was such as to be expected under much circumstances. The twelve Deputies elected in Coblentz belong, without ex ception, to ancient noble families; and of the 13 elected at Dussel dorf% there are only two who belong to the class of landholders not noble. We hope that these events will serve to give such a direc tion to the elections of the 3d and 4th estates, as to shew that the proprietors who are not noble will place themselves on a level with the old nobility in the exercise of their political rights, as they claim to be equal to them by their wealth and education. PALERMO,' )!ARCS 23. The beautiful comet, wnich, in the months of September and October, last year, shone with such splendour in our southern he misphere, and then withdrew to amaze the savage tribes of the other hemispheres, has now returned to our horizon. But it is now shorn of its beams ; and as if ashamed of its nakedness, con ceals itself from the eyes of the curious in the rays of the morning twilight. On the ISth, however, it was observed from our Royal Observatory, by Signor Caceratore, about an hour and a quarter before sun-rise, between the legs of Sagit tarius; its right ascension was 269 deg., and south declination 47 deg. 45 min. If the mountain did not cover 5 degrees of the' southern horizon of Palermo, it might have been seen some days earlier. It appears by accounts from the Hague of the 26th instant, that the Government of the Netherlands is about to raise a New Loan of 40 million of guilders, to be subscribed for in 5,000 shares, of 8,000 guilders each. The details of the plan are not given, but the subscriptions are to be paid in cash, or in existing Government Securities, taken at a- rate below their present value in the market. The 10 millions wanted for Java, are included in the proposed LOan. An accurate idea of the immense value of. Property annually disposed of by Auction in this Country, may be formed by the inspection of an Account printed by order of the House of Commons. It appears by this Return, that the amount of sales by Auction, on which duty was paid in Great Britain, on Estates, &c. at the rate of 7d. in the pound, and on Furniture, &c. at ls. per pound, was as follow, during the, undermentioned periods On Estates. On Furniture. Year ending July 5, 1824 . . £4,322,379 £2,696,643 Do. July 5, 1825 . . 6,196,837 2,819,615 alf.year to sth Jan. 1826 . . 8,177,304 1,494,100 The immense increase of the amount of Sales of Estates, &c. within the last year and a half, may, per haps, be traced to those causes which operated upon every interest of the Country during a part of that period, but we leave the question to be settled by abler Political Economists than we profess to be. The second part of Major MOODY's reports relating to captured Negroes has been printed by order of the House of Commons. The report relates to the apprenticed Africans and other Negroes condemned to the Crown in the Court of Vice-Admiralty at Tortola, since the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In submitting this report to Earl BATHURST, Ma jor MOODY observes, that in proposing any measures for meliorating the condition, and promoting the civi lization and happiness of apprenticed Africans (inha biting the torrid zone, in parts where population is thinly settled, and where the means of subsistence almost gratuitously obtained from the bounty of Nature), they must be of a practical and not of a theoretical nature ; that die expediency of such mea sures cannot be applied by reference to theories, how ever sound, which have been formed from observations on men living in a different climate—in a different state of civilization—and under other circumstances, (physical as well as moral) very different from those under which the liberated Africans actually are placed; and that there he has deemed it necessary to point out some of the facts and observations which have in fluenced his judgment in recommending the measures which he has submitted, so that not only every error which he has committed may be discovered, but also the train of reasoning which led to it. The Major's report appears to us to be a production of considerable talent, and to be full of much interest ing matter. The general result, however, of the train of reasoning which he ent er s into is, that the public measures w have been adopted, in regard to the liberated Africans, have altogether failed in their ob bect ; that no power of persuasion will induce the li erated Africans or Indians to labour steadily in the sun in the lowlands of the torrid zone, in return for any wages which their labour could qfford to the agri cufturatcapitalist at present, and that the power of coercing their labour, by personal or other punishment, must be vested in the chief superintendent. irong effrct on the hustinge...-(Hear, hear, hear.)--Let it of be supposeil, however, that he preferred a despotic nin of government to a democratic' one. Far, "very far, rom it. But this he would say, that, in his view of the object, the Sultan of Conaantinople, the Sophi of Persia, or ho Dey of Algiers, was subject to a more efficient reeponsi ility, the leaders of a democratic assembly.—(Hear, ear, from the Oppoeition benches, which were re-echoed by he Members on the Ministerial side.) On the grounds which Le had stated, he would seriously urge the House not to agree to his proposition. It was impossible for them to see their way ompletely through it; and so far as he could see his way in it, he effects, were the motion carried, would, he was convinced, be nest pernicious.--(Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL briefly replied. The calls of " Question" now became general. The gallery o'as cleared, and the House divided. The numbers were— Pot the motion - - - 128 Against it - - - - 24'7 Majority - - - 1 2 4 _ _ WATERAIEN. ON THE THAMES. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for leaVe to bring in a Bill for re zulating the 'vatermen on the river Thames from Gravesend to Windsor. Mr. Secretary PEEL obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law respecting the offence of stealing in gardens and hothouses. Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved for leave to bring in a Bill to con firm the sale of the Crown property made by the Commissioners of the Land Revenue.—Leave granted. Mr. Secretary PEEL brought in a Bill for the Registration of Aliens.—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next, and to be printed. The Bank Charter Amendment Bill was read a third time and Mr. TENNYSON moved the third reading of the spring-gunk Mr. ,NICHOLSON CALVERT wished to have a clause in this fill Modified. Sir G. CHETWYNDE thought the present law ought to sub- - 'let, and was therefore opposed to the present Bill. Mr. PEEL concurred in the measure. If a spring-gun was to be defended as a punishment for a trespass, a man might also de fend the. springing of a mine, by which a whole ,gang of poachers might be destroyed at once. He for one could not approve the power of punishing with . daath a trespass of which, even if a man were convict e d, would only bring upon him a punishment of S months' imprisonment. Mr. GOULBURN would support the Bill, if it embraced the amendmpt of last year.--that the prohibition of the use of 'Ming guns should be limited to woods, underwoods, or open fields. Mr. L P. GRANT gave his assent to thc.Bill, but objected to the clau.se,,making death by a spring gun, manslaughte r. The House then divided, when the numbers were— ' For the Bill - - - - 24 Against it - - - 25 , Majority - •••••• 1 The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Two o'cLocir. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDING S. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.) ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1 . Wrongous Imprisonment Bill—Second reading... 2 . Episcopal Unions (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 3. Bribery at Elections Bill—Further consideration of Report. 4. Ea 4 India Writers Bill—Committee. l i. Prison Laws( Ireland)Bill—Further consideration of Report. 11. Valuation of Ireland Bill_Committee. 7. East India' Naval, Force Bill—Second reading. IL Shire Halls Bill—Further consideration of Report. 1 ~:Ways and gleam--Committee. I . Supply—Committee. 11. Middlesex Turnpike Trusts Bill—Third reading. 1 , 2 . Me rc h ant S eamen Wages Bill—Second reading. ' 3 ' Criminal Justice Bill—Third. reading. 14. Customs Collection Bill—Committee. pharin g .cross Improvement Bill—Third reading. If,; Yeomanry CorPs Bill—Committee. I Destruction of ;notes (Ireland) Bill—Report. 'IL Excise Laws Amendment Bill—Third reading. 4 1 % Petty S ess i ons (Ireland) Bill..—Committee. 20 . Exchequer Bills (13,20,000/4 Bill—Third reading. 21. C rown Lands Sa le s Bill—S eco nd read'ing. 22. Vislieries (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 23. Trustees Entailed Estates Bill—Second reading. NOTICES GIVES YESTERDAY. Monday, 'May 1. Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald—Papers relating to the Revenue. Ireland. Tuesday, May 2. 111 r, riuskisson—To move for it Return of the number of Ships built in the Rriti%h Dominions between 1814 und.11124, .both inclusive ,• distinguishing the number in each year, and the amotmt of their tonnage. 'S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 78 Ex. BMA 000/. 2d.... 9 10 pm. Ditto 301)1.2d. 9 10 pm. Ditto Small 2d ii 10 pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Acct. India for Acct. Cons. for Acct. 79 oi 9 PRICES OF FOREIGN F AiNtrinti lids, 5 per cent.... lirsziliari tide — Nernst Ayres lids ' — ( Milian lids, 6 per et — Colontbiltit lids 41 l)o. 1824 44 li 39i 40. Danish, 3 p. ct. ....... .... 554 4 ireek lids — Do. 1112fi t iustintala Alcsiettn lids. Do. 1825 ..... .. 64 i 3ii ---- UNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds 29 Portuguese Bonds Prtissian, 5 per cent. Ditto New Russian,'New, sp.c. 76} 71 Spanish 1821, 5 p. 1823 si 5 French Rentes, 5 p. c. .—f. —c. ---- Exchange —c. 3 p. c. Exchange PR ICES OP SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per *Share. Anglo-Mexican Mining Company Paseo Peruvian Mining Co m p any Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association Protector Fire Assurance Company Provincial Portable Gas Company X,..quittible Loan Bunk Co m p any N 26 elv Coin Exchange FOREIGN MAILS. AItiIIVED. Dim. Holland Flanders France HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 40 minuteba after 7. I Evening, 9 minutes after. 8. NEXT WEDNEF3DAY, SIX PRIZES OF £21,000, &c. tee - . BEING THE LAST LOTTERY BUT ONE THAT WILL EVER BE DRAWN IN ENGLAND. dlOt 4 PRICES Oil' STOCKS TIM Bulk stock 3 per Cent. Heel. 7III 8 3 Per Cent. Contr. °4 pir Cent. • 5$ bitta Red. 4 per Cent. New 4 per Cent. Scrip g it pm • bank bong Ann. 194 India Stork 2270 Ditto Bonds THE. FUNDS. City, 12 o'clock this day. Consols opened this morning at 78i 79 for the Account, the same price they left off yesterday : owing to the absence of the Hebrews from the Market, it being a continuation of their holidays, no business to any great extent has been effected, but the Market has somewhat improved since it opened, and Consols are at present 79, buyers.—ln the Foreign Market little is doing ; owing to its being settling day, they are making up their accounts. Old Spanish, Bto 4 ; Mexican, 64 to 4 ; Colombian, 41; Russian, 764 to 77 ; Greek, 134 to 14 ; New Scrip, 4 to 4 premium. City, one o'clock. The Consol Market continues rather heavy, and Consols have been done within the previous hour at 78 for money, and 78i for the account, with little doing. The agitated state of the marka is owing to the gloomy accounts received this morning from Blackburn. City, two o'clock. The Consol Market has not improved since our one o'clock reports, and there is a gloom about the Market which seems to indicate a further depression. Consols for Account, 78*, 79—Reduced, '7B, 80j_New Fours 94i—New Scrip, j Prem. In the Foreign Securities a great deal of business has been doing, and the prices, both of Mexican and Colombian Bonds have declined 2 per Cent. since yesterday. Mexican, 62 to ; Colombian, 39 to . To-day is settling day in the Foreign Market Every thing has pass e d off quietly. 1 I SHIP NEWS. . . [FROM LLOYD'S.] . DI U!, Arau. 96.—Wind B.—PassedthrOugh for the River, the Hon. Company's ship Hythe, from China ; the Chief tain, Patterson, from St. Vincent's. Poarsmount, AralL 27.—Wind N.N.W.—Anived the So ♦ereign, German, from London ; his Majesty's ship Camelion, from Plymouth. Sailed his Majesty's sliip Jasper, Sovereign and Cato, transports, for Woolwich ; and his Majesty's ships Talbot and Philmnek, for Plymouth. The Ganges was taken out of dock on the 26th, and her fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Otway, is proceeding forthwith. FALMOUTH, Aran. 26.—Wind N.W.—Sailed 'the Onyx, Weller, for Honduras; and the Betsey, Nicholls, for London. Dovxa, Aram 27.—Arrived from Calais his Majesty's Packet Fury, Captain Hamilton, with his Grace the Duke of Wellington; Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Dunglace, Dr. Hume, &c. They landed 'under a salute from the Battery on the Wes tern Heights, and proceeded about one o'clock this afternoon for London. -lavrtroot, APRIL 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the . John Taylor, Atkinson, from Calcutta; Philadelphia, Elmes, from Mobile; Margaret Johnson, Sawerby, from St. John's; New Brunswick ; and the Ewin, Gilpin, from Virginia. CORR, APRIL 23.—Sailed the Palmyra, Lamb ; Hoogley, Reeves; and Melpomene, Johnson, having on bard the 7Sth Regiment, bound to Ceylon. Arrived off Dover the Bormeo, Ross, from Sumatra and the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed from the latter 10th February. The Sovereign, Durable, from Sunderland to Quebec, put into Scilly, 22d instant, leaky. The following is an extract from the letter of Our Plymouth correspondent :—" Monday being the Anniversary of his Majesty's Birth-day, it was marked 'by the customary honour and respect which a loyal people observe on such an occasion. At eight o'clock the colours were hoisted as usual ; and in addition, the ships in the harbour were decorated with flags, and the Royal Standard was displayed from the mast-heads of the Britannia and Java, and from the steeple of the dock-yard chapel; this emblem of Britannia's pride, power, and blessing, waved with dignified splendour over that sacred edifice. " The troops were in the morning inspected by our worthy Lieut.-Governor, Sir J. Cameron, and, from the fauourable state of the day, the ground was covered with an assemblage of beauty, rank, and fashion. " At one o'clock a Royal Salute was fired from the Ilritannia and Windsor Castle ; and the festive day was concluded by a brilliant aseembly at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, where dancing WAS kept up to a late hour." RIOTS AT BLACKBURN. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, 12 MILES FROM MAN CHESTER, DATED APRIL 25. _ _ " I am just returned from Manchester; all quiet there, but a very bad market. " Blackburn has been tolerably quiet to-day. The poor starving creatures have broken all the power looms belonging to Messrs. W. H. Carr and Co. The rioters are busy, it is said, at Charley and Preston, but I don't think there is any truth in the various reports. . The poor creatures are in juring themselves the most. It is alarming to be here. We have had several expresses from various quarters, all wanting soldiers ; in fact, all this part is in a most dreadful uproar : we cannot tell where this will end, but at present all looks dark. They have commenced entering houses for victuals." ( From the Blackburn Mail of 'Wednesday.? In a second edition last week, we communicated the particulars which had then transpired respecting the proceedings at Accrington, &c., on Tuesday evening. During these tumultuous proceedings, the town was in the. most feverish state of alarm : the shops were closed, and of course business entirely suspended. About three o'clock the soldiers returned from Ac crington, and the work of devastation at Messrs. Eccles and Co.'s being by that time completed, they were dis patched to Grimshaw-park, where there is another power-loom filetory, and towards which a part of the mob had already directed their steps. Here they con tinued for nearly an hour, without much molestation, but the crowd gradually increased, and at length a ge neral attack commenced. The ground on which the factory stands being near the canal banks, lies much exposed, and being likewise very li mited, was unfavourable for the soldiers. The mob pelted them with stones, whilst others, armed with pikes, &c. pressed forward, and after three attacks, overpowered the soldiers and entered the lower part of the factory, where they destroyed all the power-looms, and then retired, but not before some of the party had been captured. In the course of the affray several shots were exchanged between the soldiers and the mob, and it is difficult to learn on which side it commenced. We are sorry, however, to say . that two persons in the crowd were shot, and received very serious inju ries ; indeed, their recovery is considered doubtful. This is the more to be lamented, as both of them were, we understand, merely spectators, and did not take an active part in the affray. We are likewise sorry to learn that some of the sol diers and their horses received serious damage from the stones, and we are the more grieved at this, as they conducted themselves throughout the eventful day with the most exemplary forbearance, taking ever y op portunity of expostulating with the mob, and endea vouring, by all the means in their power, to prevent mischief. The only objects of the vengeance of the Mob ap peared to be the power-looms, for they did not attempt to injure the spinning machinery, nor even to break the windows, nor did they offer molestation to the property of any other of the inhabitants. The damage sustained by the attacks we have aboved noticed can not yet be ascertained with any degree of accuracy, but according to the most moderate computation, we think it will not be less than 10,0001. In a Second Edition of the Blackburn Paper re ceived this morning, it is stated that several prisoners made by the troops have been rescued by the populace of Blackburn. Private accounts, say that the insur rection is extending towards Manchester. A mer chant of Liverpool has sent a large quantity.of rice to relieve the starving multitude. Half past Two. We have just received the following extract of a letter from Manchester, dated 26th April " There is dreadful work at Blackburn, Clitheroe. Haslingden, &c. ; report says at least twenty to thirty thousand are in different detachm en t s . and their object is to destroy all power looms. They have destroyed a power loom at Rot terclale, and are proceeding towards Rochdale the military have nearly all left Manchester for different places, unless we get a large force imme diately. I fear the result will be dreadful. Th e mili tary have no chance with the mob, being so incum bered. The mob are armed With pick -axes and ham mers, at Sunderland; an application has just been made to Preston, for troops. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. ROYAL SOCIETY, THURSDAY, Minn. 27. At the meeting this evening, a paper was "read by P. Bevan, Esq. on the .;Elasticof Ice. A num ber of experiments w ere detailed, ` which the elastic force was determined from the deflections produced in pieces of ice, by given weights, at given distances, from the point of support. The elasticities thus de duced, were compared with those of other known bodies, estimated by the usual method of the mo dulus. Another paper was read, by Dr, Brinkley, Pro es - sor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin, detail• ing the observations made to evince the accuracy of Capt. Kater's beautiful invention of the collimator, in its application to the mural circle in the observatory of Trinity College. The observations, which were given in extensive tables, fully confirmed the extreme accuracy of the method; which, as our readers may be aware, establishes the horizontal point in a way en tirely obviating 411 the objections to the ordinary me thods. Yesterday afternoon, a few minutes before five o'clock, Lord Dunglas, who'accompanied the Duke of Wellington on his embassy to St. Petersburgh, ar rived at the Foreign Office, in Downing -street, bring ing an account of the 'safe arrival of the Noble Duke at. Dover yesterday morning in good health. The Noble Lord .had an interview with Mr. Secretary Canning, for about half an hour. The - Duke of Wellington, we are happy to state, has returned from his late Embassy in perfect health. His Grace landed at Dover yesterday from Calais, and reached town last ni g h Yesterday Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambas sador, transacted business at the Foreign Office. The Duke of Clarence came to town yesterday morning from his seat at Bushy. Prince Leopold has issued cards of invitation for a numerous grand evening party, on the 15th of May. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta. Yesterday the Princess Augusta, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, visited the King, at his Pa lace, in Pall-Mall. Mathews' « Invitations " were last night honoured by the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Leo pold, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. The boxes were filled with elegant company—amongst whom we noticed Lady Pulteney, Lady Gifford, Lady East, &c. We understand that the Hon. Robert Dumlas third son of Viscount Melvill e , accom p an i es the Dula; of Devonshire, as one of his Grace's Secretaries, on his mission to St. Petersburgh. Some of the Duke's servants and horses left town on Wednesday morning, to embark for Russia. We regret to state that ItearoAdmiral Sir Edward Owen was thrown from his gig, a few clays ago, near his residence, iVliddle Deal, when his collar bone was broken and his arm severely injured. Yesterday, the sitting of the adjourned Middlesex Sessions was attendedly a very numerous Bench of Magistrates, the day being appointed for the discus sion of the important question, whether the Court had the rower of appointing a Pass-master for the removal of Scotch and Irish paupers. The office, it may be remembered, had been abolished, as being no longer legal; and the Court decided that they had no power to revive it. We are happy to learn that the Marquis of Exeter has consented to the provisions of the Charing-Cross Improvement Act, now before Parliament,' being ex tended so as to include thatpart of the Strand which is the . property of his Lordship ; and that as the leases. fall in next year, there is every probability of Exeter 'Change, and the houses in that narrow part of this great thoroughfare, being pulled down at no distant period. ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.--At A very early hour this morning, the servants of one of the inns were raised by the arrival of a chaise and four from the South, which, bore every mark of extreme haste, the post-boys nearly in purls naturalibus, having been allowed no time to dress at the preceding stage s and having driven with such expedition as to pass the mail between Kinross and Perth. Immediately on its arrival here, a warrant, it is said, was applied for, to break open the gate of a mansion in this neighbour hood, in search of a young lady, an heiress of great property in the North, who, along with a young gen tleman, had doped from Edinburgh the preceding evening. On gaining admission, (which was done without violence), the gentleman' made his appearance with the unanswerable argument of the marriage lines in his hand.--(Perth . Courier, April 20.) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Camantpaz, APRIL 28.—At a congregation, on Wednesday ast, the following degrees were conferred : MASTERS OP ♦RTH. Rev. Henry Howarth, Fellow of St. John's College. Richard Leigh Trafford, St. John's College. Rev. Henry Norman, Catharine Hall. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Walter Long, St. John's College (compounder.) BACHELORS or ARTS. Thomas Stevens, St. John's College. James Thomas Campbell, Queen's College. BETTING AT NEVOI lARKT LAST NIGHT. HWY. 14 to 1 apt Advance 17 to 1 agmt The Moslem 20 to 1 agst Monarch LIM IS to I apt The General 8 to 1 apt Panic 84 to 1 apt The Baron 3 to 1 art Pawn fl to 1 apt Tears 0 to 1 ags Butterfly 12 to I apt Ellsaboth 14 to 1 agst llopeep CORN-EXCHANGE-.-(Tats DAT). The arrivals of all sorts of Grain are good, and 9f Oats rather large. The Trade is dull for Wheat, and the fine it samples cannot ho quoted the same as on Monday, though the fall is trifling; Barley is in small demand, particularly malting qua lities ; Beans and Peas meet a heavy sale, at the terms of last market day ; Oats are rather lower than on Monday. Arrivals.... English Wheat, 5,600 ; Barley, 5,400 f„Oats, 15,200; Flour, 7,600 ; Irish Ditto, 1,960. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Aram 28. At t s to cks , da' M sandh exhibited a short supply of each kind of Beef Mutton cotnmanded a brisk sale, at about 2d. per stone beyond 'Monday's quotations, at which Lamb, Veal, and Pork remained stationary.-Coarse anti in ferior Beasts producing from 31. 4d. to 3s. Bd.; coarse and inferior Sheep, 3s. W. to 3s. 10d. ; second quality Beasts, 4s. 4d. to 4s. lid.; second quality Sheep, Out of wool, 4s. Cd. to 48.11 d., in woal, 4s. lid. to 4s.:100.; prime long-woolleti Sheep, out of wool, 4s. Otl. to As. Od. ; in wool, 4s. 10d. to ss. V.,. prime large Oxen, 41. 10d. to ss. 2d. ; prime Scots . , Norfolk home-breds, &c. -ss. 2d. to s s . 4d. ; primest South Downs wethers (all in wool), toss. fid. ; Lambs, Icit.Ott to 7s. ; large coarse Calves, 46.11(1. to ss. ; Calves of from 12 to 10 stone each, if white in the flesh, and otherwise comple,ce , lig. lid. to fi s . ; l arge H ogs, 4s. to 4s. 411. ; and neat tharv-ft Porkers, not exceeding 7 stone each, ss. to 64.40. per stone of to sink the Offaly. Suckling Calves, m P front 12*. 32*. no and quarte r o ld store Pig s, 12s. to Ills. each. .flll l 11 . were in demand, at hi g h p r i ces, b ut there were goa dOO v either in Smithfield to-day, or at Islington Yestoa 4 Supply, as per Clerk's statement !toasts 454 / Calves 70 Sheep and Lambs 0,609 Pigs